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Ibtisam Azem: Excerpts from her novel Sifr al-ikhtifa’a (The Book of Disappearance), translated by Sinan AntoonEmad Fouad: Thirteen Poems, translated by Camilo Gómez-RivasNoura Mohammad Faraj: Fiery Curses, a short story translated by William M HutchinsAmin Zaoui: An excerpt from his novel The Last Jew of Tamentit, translated by André Naffis-SahelyBadriya al-Bishr: “Love is not a Crime”, two excerpts from her novel Love Stories from al-A’sha Street, translated by Sally GomaaJalil Haydar: Stanzas from the long poem The Lion of Babylon, translated by Allison BleckerIsmail Ghazali: A Short Story "The Japanese Garden", translated by Sophia VasalouMohamed Berrada: A chapter from his novel Far from Clamour, Close to Silence, translated by Mbarek Sryfi

JAWAD Al-ASSADIPlaywright and Director Extraordinaire

Excerpts from Jawad al-Assadi's theatrical autobiography Theatre of Bitter Illumination, translated by Basil Samaraandthe first full English translation of the play Baghdadi Bathhouse, translated by Hassan Abdulrazzak

A Travelling Tale by Mohammed al-Asfar: Going back to Bonn, translated by Julia Ihnatowicz

The Future of Cities

Rawi Hage: The WavePerihan Mağden: Fairground Cities in the 2030s, or the Continual Flight from Loneliness, translated from the Turkish by Denzil ErolRoddy Doyle: Dublin 2030Boualem Sansal: 2030, The City of the Future, translated from the French by Frank Wynne